Fixed various bugs in the theme including bad comments and reply box rendering (thanks to various Ahimsa for WP users for pointing this out).

Fixed JavaScript error(s) which were causing problems with IE in particular.

Fixed bug where sidebar did not extend the entire length of the page when collapsed and restored.

Fixed issue: pingbacks and trackbacks were not being displayed.

Very preliminary/alpha implementation of custom skins. Currently, using a very simple interface, you can add your own colour schemes to Ahimsa for WP. An upcoming blog post will provide details. A few words of caution: there is no way to edit a “skin” using the UI and this implementation might change in a future release.

Hey, I’m using WordPress 2.7.1 and I really love your theme. I’m having a problem with it though where the sidebar doesn’t show all the groups like Archives, Calendar, Links, and Meta like your site does.

I really appreciate that you have added support for custom color settings. Still a lot of work for those not familiar with css and often difficult to guess what all these categories mean.

It would be good to know how you plan to implement the custom color feature in future releases. I could, of course, come up with a list of suggestions how to make it work neatly and accessible for the inexperienced users but I’d imagine you already have some very concrete ideas for that anyway.

I am not sure if my previous comment was sent thru. I was asking a small issues on the comment call back function properly. When clicking the reply link, the whole page refreshes itself and pulls back to the end function of comment form instead of showing up right underneath the comment being replied to instead of under all the children comments. Can this be fixed?

Jay thank you for the perfect answer. K, the comment form not showing up properly is indeed a bug. I had followed the instructions in WordPress docs correctly AFAIK, to support the new comment API, but its possible I messed up. Its in my list of targeted fixes for Ahimsa 2.3. Please bear with me till then. I hope to get 2.3 out by end of May.

I would like to change the font size in the CSS file for the Body Text of a post but have not been able to locate the section that I need to change could you help me with this. Once again I love you Theme! Thanks for all the work and time you have put into it. Keep up the Great work.

All font settings are in style.css which you can edit using Admin page: Appearance -> Theme Editor. The default font for the entire page is set at the top, but the font for each post and comment text is at around line 504:

.entry
{
font-size: small;
}

Apologies for the delay in responding to your question. Ping me via email if the above does not work for you.

Joe thank you for your comment. Unfortunately there is no easy way to set up links to pages in the header or footer, without hacking the theme. If you want to give that a shot, contact me via email (code {at} ahren [dot] org). I am going to see if I can add some such feature for 2.3, since others have requested this as well.

Ad, sorry — the IE thing is not meant to be vindictive. I use a CSS3 attribute ‘border-radius’, or rather its prototypes implemented in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, to set the curved corners. Unfortunately, IE has not added any support for this even in IE8. To offer the rounded corners in IE I will have to change to a complicated hacky scheme using images and such. Hence my reluctance.

Hi I am now using this theme to my blog, however I have a small issue on comment reply. When replying to someone using the reply button, the commenting box remains static at the bottom of the comment page so you end up scrolling down to find the comment box. Also when you reply to someone, the entire page reloaded, which I find weird. Does it has to refresh everytime you click the reply button or the comment box should stay just below when replying to someone?

Yes, it’s a bug in my theme somewhere, I am afraid. I am looking into it and hope to have a fix soon. I think the WordPress code that pulls the reply box to the right place assumes that the box is a particular type of HTML element, which is not true in the case of my theme. I think I should be able to fix this in Ahimsa 2.3. If this is really bothering you, please contact me and I will try to give you a private version of 2.3 that will have a fix for this issue.

Dear Ravi
We have a tiny blog on user interfaces and we have featured your theme as the best on the web on UX front. It is indeed quite amazing that when deciding on the design of our own theme, we set forth a few design goals and your theme actually implements almost all of them. You can read more about it here.

Hello! That may not work too well: the sidebar can be more than a page length in height and if it constantly scrolls with the page, how would you reach the lower sections? Or perhaps I am misunderstanding your question? (apologies if so).

Hi, Ravi! I’m in love with your theme and am using it on a blog I just started (with wildly different colors), but I seem to be having trouble getting Feedburner FeedFlares to work with it. I have them installed on my other blog, so I don’t think it’s a problem of me not knowing what I’m doing. Have you heard of anyone else having Feedburner issues with Ahimsa?

I’ll send you an e-mail shortly, but just in case anyone comes along with the same problem, I wanted to say publicly that I’ve found that the Feedburner Flares appear with the entries in a feed reader such as Google Reader but don’t actually appear with the entries on the site itself.

I will confess that I am not a fan of fixed width… I did not have plans for implementing it in the future, but the changes required are very minimal. If you want you can file a request at http://ahrencode.16bugs.com/ and I will try to add it to Ahimsa 2.3. In the meantime, if you want hand edit the necessary changes, let me know and I can help.

If you find bugs, please do file them (http://ahrencode.16bugs.com/) or let me know (code {at} ahren [dot] org). The code did grow rather organically from the default theme, with additional hacks for WP2.7 changes. I am hoping to clean it up for Ahimsa 3.0.

Hello,
Thank you very much for your work in this great theme. I am new to all things computer and like very much the simplicity of the lay out together with the boldness of the colors. I also like all the hidden treasures that you have included. Anyway I write also to ask you if it is a feature or a bug that at the bottom of the (rounded corner) square that holds comments to a post the color changes, as you can see just under my comment (while it is the last). I think it would look more coherent if the color did not change. Thank you again.

Javier, indeed the colour changes at the bottom. That is also what you see in the bar at the bottom of the post (the one that holds links for Categories, Tags, and Comments). That was intentional. Like you, I am not entirely pleased with it. I will try to come up with something better in the next release.

I also agree with a previous comment that the ‘sidebartab’ that opens and closes the sidebar would be nice if it stays fixed to the middle of the screen, like the background, so that is always accesible even after scrolling down a long post or the front page. Better still if it would slide down as the “scrowfollow” here (which I suposse has a bit of javascript):

Javier, interestingly enough, in my first implementation I did have the sidebar tab stay fixed and visible as the page scrolled. I too liked that idea. The problem was that I did that using a CSS feature that permits an element to have a fixed position and that CSS feature is not supported in IE6 (and perhaps also IE7). :-( The other option, as you suggest is to dynamically move the tab down using JavaScript as the page is scrolled. I am not a fan of that idea — the movement is not smooth and gives a poor user experience, in my humble opinion. In the near future, as IE6 dies out, I could possibly switch back to that implementation.

I agree with you about the size of the fields in the comment input section. I will decrease them for the next release.

kummy, do you have a pointer to your blog? In general, you can prevent the wrap around from happening by using &nbsp; instead of spaces in the title you define in the Admin section. E.g: Ahren&nbsp;Code.

I love this theme to distraction, but am having a small issue that I’m sure you can help me with. When I click on any of the links under the Projects portion of the sidebar, all I get is a blank page. If I can get this fixed, I would be a very happy girl. Thanks! :D

I’m using your theme and really like it a lot. I want to update to your current theme. What is the best way to do this? Do I just copy the new folder over the old one? Will all my plugins keep their existing configuration? Will I have to do any technical stuff?

Over time I have made some changes to the existing files in your theme, as required by plugins and what not. I suppose those changes are gone, but… that’s life!

Mike, apologies for the late response. You can customise the colours of the theme using the built-in “skins” feature. Be warned: you have to backup your skins before you upgrade the theme, since the WordPress upgrade process wipes out all files in the theme directory. If you want to do more extensive changes, your idea is not a bad one: you can either create a new directory with a different name and copy over all the files and edit them. Or if you are more adventurous you can create a child theme. Instructions for the latter are here: http://op111.net/53 (you can also do a Google search for “WordPress child theme” to get more relevant pages).

Hi,
Thank you for your beautiful wordpress theme!
I have some question about it!
The first one is about \Feedback\ button (Right side of your blog)! How can I add this to mine?
2nd, how can i add the download button (as download button on top of this page) to my posts?
Last question is about \PageNavi\ plugin! Is it possible to integrate pagenavi with ahimsa theme?!

Mojtaba, I am certain I responded to your comment but now I don’t see it! Apologies! The “Feedback” button is not part of my theme. It’s from Get Satisfaction — you can get a similar widget by signing up at http://getsatisfaction.com/. If you are still interested in the Download button please let me know. The image is part of Ahimsa and I can give you details on how to add it. Page navigation is an idea that has been requested multiple times. I will examine the plugin and consider some ideas of my own as well. I am not sure of the timeframe though.

Thanks for made this template. I need your help. I wanna change the background color of this template. Precisely i wanna change the “silver” dark color which is over the orange.
Did you understand or I made complicate? :)

Javier, apologies for having missed your comment. Please let me know if I can still help. What you want can be easily accomplished using a custom.css file in your Ahimsa theme folder, in which you can add the relevant CSS. The background has two colours and a stripe, and I need to know which one (or all three?) you want to change.

I love this theme. I spent a long time trying to find one that was pretty, colorful, and simple, not flashy. Love the color options, it is tedious trying to customize them, but it’s great for a start. Can’t wait for future updates!

Steve, apologies for the late response. I had completely missed out on a bunch of comments and yours was one of them. There isn’t an easy way to make the sidebar and the title the same width (though I think from a visual/design perspective its a good idea and I have always wanted to do that). One way is to set both of them to the same width, but that might be too restrictive.

HI Ravi,
Thanks for your template. It’s very nice. My boss wants me to fix a few things. I know the adjustments need to go into the appeance\editor.

Here is what I need to change:

They want a full layout
– no green and dark grey background (possibly all white or all black)
– switch the red top banner to the light grey that I’m using for the middle page
– Samson Properties logo need s to be bigger and centered with the tagline just below it
“1,400 Professional Realtors®”
– take out search bar
– add the Cardinal Title and First Heritage logos in the top banner on either side of the Samson logo
– take out date
Can you help me out with the coding on this?
thanks
Tim